18.09.2012
Scientists of the Columbian University (NY, USA) conducted a research, the results of which showed that nicotine serves as the most powerful catalyst of cocaine addiction. The brain “prepared” by nicotine, significantly perceives the effect of cocaine and intensifies the growth of addiction.
Long time ago, it was known that cocaine addicts started from nicotine and alcohol, however the schemes of this systematic pattern were not clear enough. The obtained results, published in the magazine “Scientific and Transnational Medicine”, showed that nicotine first affects the brain cells, responsible for addiction and further activates them.
To make the effect more visual, scientists experimented with mouse. The mouse, which received water with dissolved nicotine, more willingly perceived cocaine in comparison with those, which drank just water.
